Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $20
The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $20 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 2Terraria$0.09/1hr107h97.30%97.38%
- 3Valheim$0.10/1hr96h93.83%93.99%
- 4Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 5ARK: Survival Evolved$0.13/1hr114h83.35%83.33%
- 6TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 7The Planet Crafter$0.18/1hr65h94.70%96.05%
- 8Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 9Green Hell$0.20/1hr19h84.75%84.72%
- 10Space Engineers$0.21/1hr97h88.59%88.86%
- 11Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 12Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 13The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 14Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 15ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.17%79.82%
- 16ICARUS$0.28/1hr25h75.82%74.42%
- 17Core Keeper$0.29/1hr48h91.89%92.95%
- 18Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 19Eden Crafters$0.34/1hr38h85.08%85.46%
- 20Don't Starve Together$0.38/1hr40h94.76%94.95%
- 21Mist Survival$0.39/1hr22h79.61%75.84%
- 22Ostranauts$0.40/1hr51h84.04%80.58%
- 23Rising World$0.40/1hr25h85.26%85.72%
- 24Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr30h80.64%76.97%
- 25Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr36h85.57%88.01%
- 26Necesse$0.42/1hr36h90.91%93.07%
- 27Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.43/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 28Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.44/1hr45h79.92%78.45%
- 29SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 30Dinkum$0.48/1hr42h90.09%91.85%
- 31Don't Starve$0.51/1hr20h95.61%96.55%
- 32Raft$0.54/1hr37h92.81%93.02%
- 33Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 34Forager$0.63/1hr32h88.67%89.52%
- 35I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 36Aloft$0.76/1hr25h84.66%83.79%
- 37Nova Lands$0.82/1hr24h86.09%89.26%
- 38Voidtrain$0.83/1hr22h79.43%73.70%
- 39The Forest$0.84/1hr24h95.38%95.53%
- 40METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.92/1hr20h78.02%65.79%
- 41Castle Story$0.93/1hr11h74.73%65.06%
- 42Longvinter$0.95/1hr21h77.39%67.42%
- 43Tribes of Midgard$1.01/1hr20h79.00%76.43%
- 44Volcanoids$1.14/1hr18h83.87%82.68%
- 45CastleMiner Z$1.14/1hr5h83.02%81.27%
- 46DUCKSIDE$1.22/1hr12h82.04%72.44%
- 47The Front$1.35/1hr15h75.63%66.93%
- 48Survive the Nights$1.36/1hr15h77.26%65.70%
- 49Stranded Deep$1.50/1hr13h76.06%74.19%
- 50Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.62/1hr12h77.17%71.13%
- 51Arctico$2.23/1hr4h82.03%70.29%
- 52DeadPoly$2.97/1hr3h82.22%77.68%
- 53Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.77%48.54%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.